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In all honesty, reading this makes me want the writer to actually spend some time reading grocery store counter magazines or cosmopolitan, or even watching 5 straight hours of fox news or reality shows or whatever goes completely against his values.

Truth is, no one would come back to a website that showed them uninteresting things.

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What matters is the interaction between the user and the news system. For this reason, I don't believe the comparison with a shop, tv or a magazine is pertinent. IMO the key element is that the news system should never lock the user up. The most annoying thing with personalized filters is that they're mostly invisible.

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